Working with Microsoft Word/Excel

The aim of todays tutorial was to familiarise ourselves with basic principles of Microsoft Word and Excel. The purpose of this is to help us with our studies at university.

Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is a fairly easy program to use and I found the letter writing activity quite basic although it did take a while to comprehend the mail merge tool as it wasn't working when I used it at the computers at uni but was fine when I tried again at home and it was an application that I had never needed to use before.

Microsoft Word is a program that everyone should already be using for everyday computer writing and the tools are easy to use as the menu icons are easy to comprehend and not hard to find.

Once I had got the Mail merge to work it was a very easy program to navigate around.

I use Micrsoft Word for all my assignment writing at university and when I was at school. I do not know what program I would use instead. It has always been a simple functioning, easy to navigate document that is very helpful.

Microsoft Excel
The Excel exercise was rather simple and straight forward just time consuming and it was boring entering all the data.

It is a perfect program for entering calculations and for creating graphs but unlike Microsoft Word it is not essential for everyday use and can not be using for writing large details only numbers and figures.

It is a program that i find useful for keeping track of my work payments and I use it to make time sheets on a weekly basis.